Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company’s acclaimed Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre returns for its 2017/2018 season on September 26, 2017. Over 400 artists from Canada and around the world, from headlining stars to emerging young talent, celebrate Toronto’s rich artistic and cultural diversity in 76 concerts. In the season’s first performance, the rising stars of the COC Ensemble Studio introduce themselves with their favourite arias.

Toronto –The Canadian Opera Company opens its 2017/2018 season with the lush orchestration and soaring vocal lines of Richard Strauss’ lyrical comedy about love, money and sex, Arabella. Never before presented by the COC, Arabella has its company premiere with a glamorous opulent staging conceived by acclaimed Toronto-resident director Tim Albery, starring two of the finest sopranos on the world stage today: Canadians Erin Wall and Jane Archibald. Arabella runs for seven performances on October 5, 10, 14, 18, 20, 22, 28, 2017 at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.

PRESS RELEASE: Love, laughter and bel canto bliss served up in COC’s crowd-pleasing operatic potion, The Elixir of Love

Toronto –Laughter and love stories carry over into the new Canadian Opera Company production of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, one of the most popular comedies of the opera world for almost 200 years. The Elixir of Love runs for eight performances at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on October 11, 15, 17, 21, 27, 29, November 2, 4, 2017.